I like to put things together, maybe I'm not always right in the outcome, but that is for scientists to verify. Here are some interesting facts. Tellurium is one of the rarest elements on earth. After occupation exposure there is a metallic taste in the mouth and a sharp garlic odor. (Pub Med) Tellurium is a rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, usually combined with other metals, as with gold (arthritis) and silver and mercury (amalgam associated with Parkinsons). It binds with fumaric, hydroxylamine, melaniline, meletin, naphthylamine, napthoquinone, ruthenium. (Dictionary) (Airline Stewardesses with Parkinsons complained of a metallic taste. It was ruled that a hydraulic mist caused the disease. I'm not so sure. Airline food really needs to be preserved.) Black tellurium - Nagyagite - is a rare grey metallic mineral, a sulfotelluride of gold and lead with some antimony. Nagyagite binds with acetylcholine, chlorine, chlormethiazole, coumarins, hydromagnesite, naphthylvinylpyridine, osidopamine, tretinoin and tretoquinol.(Dictionary) Black Wad - is an early name for several minerals including graphite and manganese oxides.(Dictionary) Pub-Med - The presence of (R) and (S) salsolinol was confirmed in fermented foods and beverages while N-methylsalsolinol was not detected. (N-Methyl(R)Salsolinol and N-Methyltransferase is elevated in Parkinsons) (Clostridium Botulinum is an anearobic organism that ferments food and makes N-Methyl that binds with N-methyltransferase) (Clostridium Botulinum neurotoxin BOTOX is used for Parkinsonian Dystonia). Bacterial tellurite resistance - Pub Med. Tellurium compounds are used in several industrial processes. Tellurite can be detoxified through interactions with cellular thiols such as glutathione or METHYLTRANSFERASE-catalyzed reaction. Roussin's black salt was the most inhibitory to clostridium sporogenes. This compound is active against both anaerobic and aerobic food spoilage bacteria. Nitrite and nitrosyl compounds in food preservation. Absorbtion, distribution and milk secretion of radionuclides by the dairy cow. KKK. Radiotellurium - no article in Pub Med. Copper and Silver - Coinage Metal complexes of a tellurium diimide: cis-transisomerization and metal-metal interactions - Pub Med. (Cis and trans are retinoic acids like tretinoin that is responsible for craniofacial birth defects like Parkinsonian blue-yellow color blindness or the olfactory, smell dysfunction that can predict what Parkinsonian kids will get Parkinsons. Tretinoin also links with bcr or breakpoint clusters that govern the environmental cause of a genetic illness.) Change in fatty acid elongation in developing mouse brain by mercury - comparison with other metals.Pub Med - Mercury dramatically altered microsomal synthesis of very long fatty acid specific for myelin in mouse brain, as measured by lengthening of behenyl-CoA by means of malonyl-CoA in vitro. This alteration was found with Copper, but not with various other metals, showing that changes in fatty acid synthesis could be due to the alteration of sulphydryl groups. The Neurobiology of Prakinsons Disease part 2: further research and parallels to Alzheimers by Rani Shankar. Solution structure of copper ion-induced molecular aggregates of tyrosine melanin - Pub Med Melanin aggregrates formed in the presence of copper ions at various coper-to-melanin molar ratios. Melanin aggregates to form long, rod-like structures. At higher copper ion concentrations these rod-like structures further aggregate, forming sheet-like structures. Phosphorylated tau can promote tubulin assembly - Pub Med TRIMETHYLAMINE-N-OXIDASE is found to promote tubulin asembly. Possible relation to Alzheimer's disease are presented in this report. [log in to unmask]